Slip-on inking-roller.



D. A. McKENNA. SUP-ON INKING ROLLER. APPLICATION FILED AUG .3I, 1914.

DANIEL A. MOKENNA, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SLIP-ON INKIIll'G-RDLLEB- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1915.

Application filed August 31, 1314. Serial No. 859,442.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL A. MCKENNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slip-On Inking- Rollers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in slip-on inking rollers for printing presses and the like and has for its primary object to provide a device of this character which may be readily slipped on the roller stock of a printing press or the like and will be highly efiicient and durable in use.

The invention has for another object to provide a slip-on inking roller of this character which will be of extremely simple and cheap construction and may be readily placed in position or removed.

The invention has for a further object to generally improve and simplify the construction of devices of this character and increase the efficiency thereof without materially increasing the cost of the same.

.Vith these and other objects in view as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, 1n whic 'Figure 1 is an elevation of my complete device, with parts broken away, Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary enlarged elevation of a roller stock, with my invention shown in section upon the same.

Referring in detail to the. drawings by numerals, 1 designates,

a roller stock of a roller used in rinting presses and the like and having re uced opposite ends 2. A

My improved slip-on inking roller for the roller stock consists of a metal sleeve 3 which may be removably positioned upon the main portion of the stock, as shown in Fig. 1, and is preferably of such length as to be spaced a slight distance from the oppo- Around the metal sleeve site'ends of the main portion of said stock. 3 I place cork 4 or other suitable yielding material and around the cork covering I secure a facing 5 of canvas or other suitable material.

To retain my slip-on inking roller composed of the sleeve 3, cork cover 4 and facing 5, in position, I employ a pair of caps 6 and which I secure upon the opposite ends of the main portion of the stock 1. The cap 6 is preferably provided with interior threads 8 for engagement with the threaded portion 9 of one end of the main portion of the metal sleeve and said cap 6 has a flared end 10 for engagement over one end of the facing 5 of the roller. It will also be understood that both ends of the facing 5 are secured in position by wrapping a fine wire 11 or the like around the same after extending the opposite ends of the casing beyond the end of the yielding cover 4 of cork, it being understood that the yielding cover is preferably slightly shorter than the metal sleeve 3, and that the flared portion 10 of the cap 6 and also the flared portion 12 of the cap 7 inclose and cover the wrapping 11 and serve to prevent longitudinal movement of the slip-on inking roller as well as rotary movement of the same upon the roller stock 1.

The cap 7 is permanently engaged upon the end of the main portion of the stock 1 opposite that upon which the cap 6 is secured and is held in position by a screw 13 or the like engaged through the end thereof and extending into the end of the enlarged portion of the stock 1, as clearly shown at 14.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a slightly modified form of the device in which I have substituted a yielding cover 4' formed of several wrappings or windings of fabric in place of the yielding cork cover. The remalnder of the construction is the same as in the preferred form, and therefore the parts in this modified form with the exception of the yielding cover are supplied with the same reference characters as the referred form, and further description of the modified form is believed unnecessary.

While the preferred embodiments have been shown and illustrated, it will be understood that minor changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts may be made within the scope of the appended claim without departing'from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the adthe metal sleeve on the roller stock against 10 vantages thereof. rotary and longitudinal movement.

What is claimed is 2-- 1 In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 4 inkingl'1 roller 12f the tsollid type (port;- in presence of two witnesses.

5 r1s1n aro er'soc,ameaseeveaaplid to e slipped on a roller stock, a yield- DANIEL MCKENNA able cover arranged on the metal sleeve, and Witnesses:

fastening means for securing the yieldable G. M. KASEMAN,

cover on the metal sleeve and for securing Jos. A. ECKENRODE. 

